Comment 16 for bug 165113

Thanks David for looking into this. I still have to disagree and I do believe this should be considered a "paper cut". As stated above by Greg Grossmeier, this bug is not just limited to users trying to change permissions from root using gksudo. This bug also affects users trying to change permissions of their own files using Nautilus. Please try changing the group permissions of a directory in your own home directory which has nested directories and files. Then choose the "Apply permissions to enclosed files" option within Nautilus. Permissions will stay the same and it will not work for you. To me this is a huge bug since a new user has no other option to change permissions besides opening up a terminal.

Either this bug needs to be fixed or the button should be removed. I hope the bug is fixed because how else is a new Ubuntu user going to change permissions?